Electric vehicles are less greener

Battery-driven vehicles are less greener than internal combustion engine-driven vehicles.

The second law of thermodynamics states,

Every conversion of energy from one form to another turns part of useful energy into useless heat.

Vehicles Driven by Internal Combustion Engines

The entire energy conversion process is as follows.

1. Oil companies ship gasoline or diesel fuel to gas stations.
2. Gas stations fill fuel into the tanks of vehicles. (The electricity consumed by pumps is negligible.)
3. The internal combustion engine in a vehicle burns fuel and drives the vehicle’s wheels.

Vehicles Driven by Batteries

The entire energy conversion process is as follows.

1. Oil companies ship natural gas to power plants.
2. Power plants burns natural gas to drive turbines.
3. Turbines drive power generators.
4. Power generators generate alternative currency which is transmitted to substations that pump up and regulate the electricity voltage.
5. Substations transmit electricity through power grid to terminals.
6. Terminals convert alternative currency to direct currency to charge batteries in vehicles.
7. The Battery converts electricity into chemical energy.
8. Battery converts chemical energy into electricity.
9. The electricity from battery drives the motor in a vehicle.
10. The motor drives a vehicle’s wheels.

Remember that some useful energy turns into heat in every above step.

Now you know whether electric vehicles are greener than traditional vehicles or not.

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